Jamaica at the 1976 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	JAM
Nocname:	Jamaica Olympic Association
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1976
Location:	Montreal
Competitors:	20 (11 men, 9 women)
Flagbearer:	Don Quarrie^[1]
Rank:	21
Gold:	1
Silver:	1
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto
See also:	(1960)

Jamaica competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 20 competitors, 11 men and 9 women, took part in 18 events in 3 sports.^[2]

Medalists

Gold

• Don Quarrie — Athletics, Men's 200 metres

Silver

• Don Quarrie — Athletics, Men's 100 metres

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Men's 800 metres

• Seymour Newman

• Heat - 1:48.46

• Semi Final - 1:47.22 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4 × 400 m Relay

• Leighton Priestley, Donald Quarrie, Colin Bradford, and Seymour Newman

• Heat - 3:03.86

• Final - 3:02.84 (→ 5th place)

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Three cyclists represented Jamaica in 1976.

Individual road race

• Errol Walters - did not finish (→ no ranking)

Sprint

• Xavier Mirander - 16th place

1000m time trial

• David Weller - 1:08.534 (→ 11th place)

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Flagbearers for Jamaica . olympedia.org . . 24 December 2023.
2. Web site: Jamaica at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games . 17 April 2015 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150506000058/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/JAM/summer/1976/ . 6 May 2015 .